Powers/Abilities: Brother Nature could communicate
with animals, and convince them to do his bidding. He also was able to control
the weather, causing gale-force wind, instant thunderstorms, flash-floods,
and even lightning bolts to crash to the ground. He also could control the
Earth's tectonic plates, causing earthquakes. Brother Nature also talked
like he owned at least one Phish album.

History: (Captain America I#336 (fb) ) - A nature enthusiast,
the man who went on to become Brother Nature decided to become a park ranger.
For 3 years, he was fairly happy with his job, until he found out that a
large section of woodlands was sold to private developers. Feeling that he
had no other choice, Brother Nature used every ecoterrorist technique in
the book to stop the developers, before he was eventually caught and beaten.
The workers, thinking they had murdered him, threw him in a ditch and bulldozed
it over. While he lay in his makeshift grave, he had a vision of the goddess
of the Earth appear before him. She appointed him nature's guardian, and
granted him his superhuman powers. For the next six months, Brother Nature
worked alongside nature in keeping the developers out.

(Captain America I#336) - In Washington state, after being
forced out of his job as Captain America, Steve Rogers met Brother Nature,
and tried to convince him to stop endangering the workers' lives. Brother
Nature lashed out, using earthquakes, stampeding deer, even a giant bear,
to stop Rogers, but he was able to escape them all. Brother Nature finally
caught Rogers with an exceptionally large earthquake, but he was caught in
it as well. Injured in the fall, Brother Nature ended up telling Rogers his
story. Rogers was eventually able to carry Brother Nature out of the crater,
but the forest was ruined. Seeing that he had caused the very destruction
he attempted to prevent, Brother Nature broke into tears.

(Thunderbolts: Breaking Points#1) - Brother Nature was attacked by the Thunderbolts. They had no chance against him until Songbird decided to trick him into surrendering. Radioactive Man told Brother Nature that he would soon reach critical mass because his containment suit got damaged during the fight. Afraid that the forest would be destroyed, Brother Nature surrendered and was soon taken away to prison. He didn't want to register like Songbird suggested.